Underground Xenon100 experiment closes in on dark matter’s hiding place

A major dark matter experiment has taken a swipe with its technological net in the hopes of catching some of the elusive particles that make up the universe’s missing mass, and once again that net has come up empty. But in swiping and missing, the Xenon100 experiment has closed in a bit tighter on where dark matter–the invisible stuff theorized to outweigh the ordinary matter in the universe by a factor of five–might be hiding. [More]

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Underground Xenon100 experiment closes in on dark matter’s hiding place